Book Publicists and Book Publicity Services: A to M

This page features PR services, book publicists, media coaches, and PR agencies which specialize in working with book authors and publishers. Alert: Before signing with any service, be sure to check out their references.

This is a work in progress. If you’d like to nominate a book PR service, email John Kremer. — John Kremer, book publicity expert

AHE PR, Amy Edelman; 973-783-3052. Email: ahedelman@comcast.net. Offers Radio Media Tours and Satellite Media Tours for less than normal by pairing two similar authors together. RMT for about $3,500 for about 9 individual interviews. SMT for $6,800 per author for approximately 14 shared TV interviews.

Best Book Promotions Ever, Kennetta Wainwright, CEO, Redbone Book Management, 1300 Mercantile Lane #100, Largo MD 20774. Email: redbonepublishing@hotmail.com. They have partnerships with bookstores, hotels, and ground transportation for book tours in the DC area. They organize book signings and appearances, coordinate travel accommodations, escort authors to all appearances, etc.

Biggs Publicity & Events, Adrienne Biggs, 1216 San Anselmo Avenue, San Anselmo CA 94960; 415-524-4474. Email: adrienne@biggspublicity.com. Book publicity a specialty. A former publicity manager at Jossey-Bass and John Wiley, Adrienne started her own PR agency in Marin County in January 2001. Her focus is on self-help, spirituality (especially Buddhism), and personal growth books as well as annual events such as the International Buddhist Film Festival.

Booth Media Group, Peg Booth, 1386 Nightshade Road, Carlsbad CA 92009; 760-929-1111; Fax: 760-929-9919. Email: pegbooth@boothmedia.com. Peg also trains people on the ins and outs of doing effective PR. Her one-on-one full-day training sessions teach people how to make and keep good contacts in the media, how to structure your day-to-day activities, and how to develop the qualities you need as a publicist.

Cave Henricks Communications, Barbara Cave Henricks, 6105 Ginita, Austin TX 78739; 512-301-8936; Fax: 512-301-8940. Email: barbara@cavehenricks.com. Focuses on business books, with an additional emphasis on working with business book authors still in the proposal stage.

Sandra Goroff & Associates, Sandra Goroff, Boston MA; 617-750-0555. Email: SGMA@aol.com. As a publicist for Houghton-Mifflin for 12 years and as an independent publicist for 18 years, she has worked with such bestselling authors as Tom Peters and Clive Cussler.

Antonia Hall Communications, Antonia Hall, 912 Cole Street #620, San Francisco CA 94117; 707-234-9738. Email: ahcassociates@gmail.com. Offers offline media campaigns, social media campaigns, press kit creation, and copywriting. We work with authors, people and events that serve to make a difference on the planet.

Kathryn Hall, Publicist, P O Box 1486, Ukiah CA 95482; 707-468-8201; Fax: 707-468-8309. Email: KHPBooks@aol.com. Motto: Changing the world one book at a time. She specializes in a National Print Tour that is a one-year commitment to securing print placement, but she is available to book online and social media as well. Her specialty is business books committed to shifting paradigms in business. She has been a book publicist for over 30 years and is personal publicist for Marshall Goldsmith, author of the bestselling What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

Annie Jennings PR, Annie Jennings, 26 Wilshire Drive, Belle Mead NJ 08502; 908-281-6201; Fax: 908-281-5221. Email: Annie@AnnieJenningsPR.com. Specializes in getting radio and TV interviews for the Top 25 markets and nationally syndicated shows. You pay only for actual bookings (any bookings in smaller markets are free). You can sign up for her Crash Course in Publicity ezine, which includes a Media Alert service, by sending her an email.

MM Book Publicity, Maryglenn McCombs, 2817 West End Avenue #126-274, Nashville TN 37203; 615-297-9875; Fax: 615-297-2925. Email: mrygln@aol.com. Has worked as an independent book publicist with Omnibus Press and Schirmer Trade Books. She prefers working with nonfiction books with a strong news angle or expert author, but she also does some fiction work. Likes women’s issues and business. Prefers working with print.

NewsReleaseCritiques.com – I see dozens of news releases every day. Few make the grade. Most are uninteresting, unnewsworthy, and product-oriented. What does it take to sell books with a good news release? In a 15-minute phone call, I can give you feedback on your news release to help you make it one that sells books. To book a critique, send me your news release via email along with the best time to call you within a few days. Each critique includes a 15-minute feedback session via telephone as well as a rewrite by John to create a news release that gets attention and makes sales.

Call John Kremer at 575-751-3398 today to get your news release that sells books!

“I want to thank you again for your generous help with our press release problem. The responses we’ve gotten for our latest release are much better than what I’m used to. A large percentage of that is (obviously) due to your suggestions.” – Thomas Shelby, Hohm Press

About John Kremer

John Kremer is author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, the Relationships Matter Marketing program, and many other books and reports on book marketing, Internet marketing, social media, and book publicity. -- John Kremer on Book Marketing.

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